We might make of our naïve conceit: parsing skies as a text to peruse
By romantic elites, quaint believers who love to enthuse — and negate
Aerosols, droplets or ice flakes: the evidence scientists use

To decipher your vacuous paradise — that we help populate
with our civilized wheezing, the bilious vice we exhale:
What once was intimate now must evaporate.

the form of a certain type of fish scale, that has a visible flat edge and a hidden serrated
edge, just like a cumulonimbus cloud, flat where we see it and billowing above.

neologism: "thunderstorm cloudiness"

a graded scale

formed like feathery cirrus cloud.

Named after 18th century mathematician Thomas Bayes, Bayesian probability takes into account
reasoned assumptions that emerge as processes unfold — here likened to the gradual invention of
meaning when we look for animals or faces in clouds.